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1 Praise the Lord!
Praise God in his sanctuary;
praise him in his mighty firmament! 2 Praise him for his mighty deeds;
praise him according to his surpassing greatness!

3 Praise him with trumpet sound;
praise him with lute and harp! 4 Praise him with tambourine and dance;
praise him with strings and pipe! 5 Praise him with clanging cymbals;
praise him with loud clashing cymbals! 6 Let everything that breathes praise the Lord!
Praise the Lord!

First Reading Isaiah 5:1-7

1Let me sing for my beloved
my love-song concerning his vineyard:
My beloved had a vineyard
on a very fertile hill. 2He dug it and cleared it of stones,
and planted it with choice vines;
he built a watchtower in the midst of it,
and hewed out a wine vat in it;
he expected it to yield grapes,
but it yielded wild grapes.

3And now, inhabitants of Jerusalem
and people of Judah,
judge between me
and my vineyard. 4What more was there to do for my vineyard
that I have not done in it?
When I expected it to yield grapes,
why did it yield wild grapes?

5And now I will tell you
what I will do to my vineyard.
I will remove its hedge,
and it shall be devoured;
I will break down its wall,
and it shall be trampled down. 6I will make it a waste;
it shall not be pruned or hoed,
and it shall be overgrown with briers and thorns;
I will also command the clouds
that they rain no rain upon it.

7For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts
is the house of Israel,
and the people of Judah
are his pleasant planting;
he expected justice,
but saw bloodshed;
righteousness,
but heard a cry!

Second Reading 2 Peter 3:11-18

11Since all these
things are to be dissolved in this way, what sort of
persons ought you to be in leading lives of holiness and
godliness, 12waiting
for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because
of which the heavens will be set ablaze and dissolved,
and the elements will melt with fire? 13But, in accordance with his
promise, we wait for new heavens and a new earth, where
righteousness is at home.

14Therefore, beloved,
while you are waiting for these things, strive to be
found by him at peace, without spot or blemish;
15and regard the
patience of our Lord as salvation. So also our beloved
brother Paul wrote to you according to the wisdom given
him, 16speaking of this
as he does in all his letters. There are some things in
them hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable
twist to their own destruction, as they do the other
scriptures. 17You
therefore, beloved, since you are forewarned, beware that
you are not carried away with the error of the lawless
and lose your own stability. 18But grow in the grace and
knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be
the glory both now and to the day of eternity. Amen.

Gospel Reading Luke 7:28-35

28I tell you, among
those born of women no one is greater than John; yet the
least in the kingdom of God is greater than he."
29(And all the people
who heard this, including the tax collectors,
acknowledged the justice of God, because they had been
baptized with John's baptism. 30But by refusing to be baptized by
him, the Pharisees and the lawyers rejected God's
purpose for themselves.)

31"To what then
will I compare the people of this generation, and what
are they like? 32They
are like children sitting in the marketplace and calling
to one another, 'We played the flute for you, and you
did not dance; we wailed, and you did not weep.'
33For John the Baptist
has come eating no bread and drinking no wine, and you
say, 'He has a demon'; 34the Son of Man has come eating
and drinking, and you say, 'Look, a glutton and a
drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!'
35Nevertheless, wisdom
is vindicated by all her children."

Evening Psalm 25

1 To you, O LORD, I lift up my soul. 2 O my God, in you I trust;
do not let me be put to shame;
do not let my enemies exult over me. 3 Do not let those who wait for you be put to shame;
let them be ashamed who are wantonly treacherous.

4 Make me to know your ways, O LORD;
teach me your paths. 5 Lead me in your truth, and teach me,
for you are the God of my salvation;
for you I wait all day long.

6 Be mindful of your mercy, O LORD, and of your steadfast love,
for they have been from of old. 7 Do not remember the sins of my youth or my transgressions;
according to your steadfast love remember me,
for your goodness’ sake, O LORD!

8 Good and upright is the LORD;
therefore he instructs sinners in the way. 9 He leads the humble in what is right,
and teaches the humble his way. 10 All the paths of the LORD are steadfast love and faithfulness,
for those who keep his covenant and his decrees.

11 For your name’s sake, O LORD,
pardon my guilt, for it is great.

12 Who are they that fear the LORD?
He will teach them the way that they should choose.

13 They will abide in prosperity,
and their children shall possess the land. 14 The friendship of the LORD is for those who fear him,
and he makes his covenant known to them. 15 My eyes are ever toward the LORD,
for he will pluck my feet out of the net.

16 Turn to me and be gracious to me,
for I am lonely and afflicted. 17 Relieve the troubles of my heart,
and bring me out of my distress. 18 Consider my affliction and my trouble,
and forgive all my sins.

19 Consider how many are my foes,
and with what violent hatred they hate me. 20 O guard my life, and deliver me;
do not let me be put to shame, for I take refuge in you. 21 May integrity and uprightness preserve me,
for I wait for you.

22 Redeem Israel, O God,
out of all its troubles.

Evening Psalm 110

1 The LORD says to my lord,
“Sit at my right hand
until I make your enemies your footstool.”

2 The LORD sends out from Zion
your mighty scepter.
Rule in the midst of your foes. 3 Your people will offer themselves willingly
on the day you lead your forces
on the holy mountains.
From the womb of the morning,
like dew, your youth will come to you. 4 The LORD has sworn and will not change his mind,
“You are a priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek.”

5 The Lord is at your right hand;
he will shatter kings on the day of his wrath. 6 He will execute judgment among the nations,
filling them with corpses;
he will shatter heads
over the wide earth. 7 He will drink from the stream by the path;
therefore he will lift up his head.